DRAW

at first glance, the two woman show entitled DRAW at samcheongdong's arario gallery resembled a homage to black licorice and hard candies. heeseop yoon's black masking tape drawings crept and crawled all over the gallery walls like a controlled chaotic virus while woojung choi's lollipop coloured plexiglas and glue portraitures dangled in midair daring you to lick them.

what i love about this gallery is how seamless the gallery and the work it exhibits become. the masking tape landscapes looked completely natural encompassing not only the gallery walls but also the reception walls and even spilled outside onto the entrance wall. both artists use such everyday mediums (the whole purpose of exhibit was the convey the accessibility and necessity of drawing for an artist,) that one can practically peel the intended lumps and texture of the tape or pick off the stray glue strands from the hot glue gun used to create the freehand faces on the plexiglas.

the first exhibit i saw at this gallery was back in 2008 and the prints of the excruciating detailed pencil and ink drawings of lee seungae's monsters still reside on my walls.